Abstract
MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its groundbreaking physics program defines a number of scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: are there extra dimensions or new symmetries; what is the mechanism for the generation of mass; does magnetic charge exist; what is the nature of dark matter; and, how did the big-bang develop. MoEDAL’s purpose is to meet such far-reaching challenges at the frontier of the field.The innovative MoEDAL detector employs unconventional methodologies tuned to the prospect of discovery physics. The largely passive MoEDAL detector, deployed at Point 8 on the LHC ring, has a dual nature. First, it acts like a giant camera, comprised of nuclear track detectors - analyzed offline by ultra fast scanning microscopes - sensitive only to new physics. Second, it is uniquely able to trap the particle messengers of physics beyond the Standard Model for further study. MoEDAL’s radiation environment is monitored by a state-of-the-art real-time TimePix pixel detector array. A new MoEDAL sub-detector to extend MoEDAL’s reach to millicharged, minimally ionizing, particles (MMIPs) is under study Finally we shall describe the next step for MoEDAL called Cosmic MoEDAL, where we define a very large high altitude array to take the search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics to higher masses that are available from the cosmos.
Highlights
In 2010 the MoEDAL experiment [1] at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was unanimously approved by CERN’s Research Board to start data taking in 2015
Its groundbreaking physics program defines over 30 scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: are there extra dimensions or new symmetries; what is the mechanism for the generation of mass; does magnetic charge exist; what is the nature of dark matter; and, how did the big-bang develop
The largely passive MoEDAL detector, deployed at Point 8 on the LHC ring has a dual nature. It acts like a giant camera, comprised of Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) - analyzed offline by ultra fast scanning microscopes - sensitive only to new physics
Summary
In 2010 the MoEDAL experiment [1] at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was unanimously approved by CERN’s Research Board to start data taking in 2015. LHCb [6] have detectors specialized for focussing on specific phenomena such as quark–gluon plasma formation and the investigation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry using b-hadron physics, respectively. These four detectors in huge caverns sit roughly 100m underground on the LHC ring. The largely passive MoEDAL detector, deployed at Point 8 on the LHC ring has a dual nature. It acts like a giant camera, comprised of Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) - analyzed offline by ultra fast scanning microscopes - sensitive only to new physics. We are preparing a proposal for a third active detector element capable of detecting the faintest flicker of light - single photon signals - produced by the passage of Minimally Ionizing (millicharged) Particles (mQPs) with charge as small as one thousandth that of an electron
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